Posted on 08/11/2016 9:59:59 PM PDT by TBP
To boldly go . . . back to 1995!
Wednesday at a Television Critics Association panel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Bryan Fuller, executive producer of “Star Trek: Discovery” (premiering in January on CBS, then airing on CBS All Access), revealed that a woman will be the new show’s main character.
But this isn’t the typical self-righteous Hollywood back-slappery that launched a thousand Medium.com essays. Nor is it the Girl Power! casting of summer’s “Ghostbusters” flop, nor the newly announced all-female “Ocean’s Eight” caper. “Star Trek” has always done diversity the right way.
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Not Mrs. Columbo?
Its even stranger without conclusive evidence, or even a reasonable explanation. She was a known alcoholic who was drunk and on Valium when she was found in the bottom of their pool. She died of a broken neck and drowning, like would happen if she dove in and hit her head. Something I'm missing here? And BTW, I'm not a Shatner fan. But murder?
I hate to say it because I like TOS so much, but Star Trek has greatly contributed to setting acceptance of Globalist NWO in our national psyche. Gene Roddenberry intentionally did that and the force still continues. So sad for we fans to acknowledge.
Ah, no. I never watched that for a reason.
If by that you mean the finest classically trained actor of the bunch, no argument there. One cannot dispute Patick Stewart's chops as an actor. That said, an actor of his training and ability should have been able to portray the role in a manner which left no dispute as to who, and even more importantly what the character was really all about. I've often been toubled by being unable to 'define' Jean-Luc Picard as well as I could define Bejamin Cisko, Kathryn Janeway, or even James T. Kirk.
Something was lacking there, but I can't really put my finger on what.
Janeway’s chaneling of Kate Hepburn I rather did find appealing;
I can wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. She did fine, but what I would have loved to really see was her channelling Kate Mulgrew, more than Kate Hepburn, although I'll take Hepburn in a pinch...
but the BEST captain was (of course) Kirk.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree, there. William Shatner had an easier task than the others, as he basically set the archetype, and the others who followed had to do a unique 'interpretation' of that archetype to be successful.
In my mind, the actor who *best* accomplished this goal was Avery Brooks, with Captain Cisko. (I'm not including Scott Bakula in this, simply because I haven't seen the series he played Captain Archer in, and thus can offer no valid opinion...)
the infowarrior
What every Star Trek since the original has missed is the
fact that the original Captain was actually three characters.
Kirk, Spock and McCoy were Ego, Super-Ego and Id respectively.
It was the dynamic interplay between these three that
was never again fully developed in any of the sequels.
FYI, the lead of this series isn’t supposed to be the Captain.
The story I read mentioned “lieutenant commander”; I presume she’ll be the XO, similar to Roddenberry’s first pilot episode.
If so, it will be the first Star Trek where the CO stays at station...you know, like they’re supposed to do.
C’mon Kirk was the best...I’m a man from earh. I could care less how powerful you are. If you mess with me I’m going to sleep with your woman and destroy you. Thanks for playing.
Nothing new, what the hell are these guys talking about like its a big deal, we already had a Female Capt already for it was Janeway on ST Voyager who was a decent Capt I would say though Picard was better in my opinion, these guys are late.
But I enjoy them anyway.
Personally, Janeway always struck me as the one who’d be fastest to hit the “fire photo torpedoes” button, probably because of her situation.
Deep Space Nine came closest to what I would like to have seen, an anthology series on all aspects of the Federation. Watching Kirk or Ryker or whomever chasing any woman with a brow-ridge almost every week gets old after a while...
That's the series where they fired all the writers from TNG except one.
Tachyons killed Voyager.
If you can hit rewind any time something goes wrong there's no real danger or action. One of the reasons I'm not that excited about first person shooter games.
Best part of Voyager was Eleven of Ten ... if you know who I mean ... and I think you do.
This is just more of the “girl power” junk. I’ve been noticing it more and more in the commercials.
No matter the household problem, the female always comes off looking like the smarter person in the room.
This is just unrealistic. The neutering of the male continues.
Just tonight, a new commercial of what to wear for the summer: prissy looking young guy; suit pants were too short; jacket was too short; jacket was too narrow - allowing the jacket to part at the lower edge of the hem. What does this expose - the “male” parts. Really ..?? And, the tie hanging down past the waistband and peeking out from under the buttoned jacket .. again pointing to the “male” parts. It’s a horrible look.
Most of these designers are gay men who seem to care only for making the males look like teenagers who have outgrown their new suit. All the male clothing seems to be hugging the body more .. gee .. I wonder why ..????
This look is not designed to attract women .. Hmmmm ..???
As for how females are portrayed; the less clothes the better. And the ads are getting more brazen about showing ALL WOMEN as the stronger of the husband and wife.
NOT ALL CHANGES ARE GOOD .. and these changes are not good.
Why do I get the feeling you’ve never actually watched any other series?
Captain Kirk when faced with a difficult situation would find a way out by bending the prime directive just a bit.
Captain Picard when faced with a difficult situation would discuss options and then choose the best course he could, with great respect for the prime directive.
Captain Jayneway when faced with a trivial problem would twist it into a moral dilemma by expanding the scope of the prime directive beyond all reason.
I was told she had some metal stuff on her face...funny how I saw her in so many episodes and didn't notice...
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